Richard van Wageningen was appointed CEO of Orange Business in Russia and CIS by the Board of directors in September, 2013. Starting January 2017, he was appointed as head of newly formed IMEAR (Indirect, Middle East, Africa and Russia) macro region, while retaining his previous position.
Richard van Wageningen brings extensive leadership experience in both the IT and telecommunications industries – both in services and equipment manufacturing companies. Having started his career with AT&T in Russia, Richard assumed leading positions in Lucent Technologies in Saudi Arabia, Portugal and the Netherlands.
Richard returned to Russia in 2005 to head the Russian operations of British Telecom. From 2010, Richard van Wageningen led Linxdatacenter in Russia as CEO. Richard graduated from Groningen State Polytechnics, the Netherlands and the University of North Carolina, USA. Richard has lived in Russia for more than 10 years and speaks fluent Russian.